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Chapters on the ethnology of the Powhatan tribes of Virginia (1928)

Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · New York : Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation · leaf 215

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POWHATAN TRIBES 425 about one part of shell to five of clay. They burn them in the traditional way by piling a heap of dry fine sticks and a dozen or so dry cornstalks to the height of five or six inches, enough to cover two or three pipes which have been dried four or five days in the shade. Then… … Fig. 122. — Recent Pamunkey earthenware pipes. The lowermost one is 4 in. long. (11/8130, 8133-35, 8137) sticks has been burnt off, the pipes are done and ready for use. Their work is shown in figs. 122-125. Holmes has a short discussion of the clay pipes of the Chesapeake-Potomac group in his…

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